01810nam a22002297a 4500 20240918154535.0 240918b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 812081536X : Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS) 610.95 LES Leslie, Charles. Asian medical systems : a comparative study. /Charles Leslie. London : University of California Press, , 1976. xiv, 419p. ; 23cm. 00 Asian medical systems provide fascinating opportunities to observe directly practices that continue ancient scientific modes of thought and to analyse the historical processes that meditate their relationship to modern science and technology. Three great traditions of medical science evolved during antiquity in the Chinese, Indian and mediterranean civilizations, all based on humoral conceptions of health and illness. Folk curers throughout the world continue to practice humoral medicine, but in Asia along educated physicians maintain its learned traditions. Thus, in these societies the great and little traditions of humoral medicine coexist with cosmopolitan medicine, which draws upon modern science and modes of professional organization. This volume has been designed to show how research on Asian medicine opens a new field of scholarship, the comparative study of medical systems. Such a book requires the skills of authors with many kinds of training and those who have contributed essays to this volume are trained in history, sociology, anthropology, public health, pharmacology, epidemiology, cosmopolitan medicine and philosophy. Philosophy Modern science Civilizations Charles Leslie. BOOK 62405 62405 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2024-09-18 Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS) 0.00 0 610.95 LES G3911 2024-09-18 00:00:00 2024-09-18 BOOK Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS)